She said: “I don’t really do all that. I kind of do chanting and I don’t really do emails. But what I could do is if you just tell me where you are I could maybe travel down to see you and if you could tell me your hotel number.”

At this point Jim-Jim, clearly unused to being on the receiving end of pranks, begins to have some doubts and tells the star he can’t meet her as he’s on holidays.

But undeterred, she says: “I could go to you. I could bring my band the Prisms and we could go to your hotel room and do a little audition for you if you liked.

“Some of the bigger wind chimes we couldn’t bring but we could bring the smaller ones and I could chant with them if you don’t mind. I would love it.”

As a clearly frustrated Jim-Jim goes to hang up, Nobby reveals the ruse and May can be heard screaming “Gotcha!”

The baffled host responds: “I was just thinking ‘Who the hell gave her the number?’ Wind chimes? You have no idea how many phone calls I get like that.” After the prank, the ‘Gypsy’ singer sat down for a talk with Mark Noble, and revealed she had no fear over her impending 40th birthday.

She said: “I’ve no problem getting older. I’d rather be older than the alternative, which is not being around for it. It’s only 40, what’s your problem with it?”

Imelda May played a prank on Strawberry Alarm Clock’s Jim-Jim Nugent (Image: Youtube)